Id v. Liwanag

Third Division]. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt25) Id. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt26) Id., See also Avancena v. Judge Liwanag, 454 Phil. 20 (2003) [Per Curiam, En Banc]; ResngitMarquez v. Judge Llamas, 434 Phil. 184 (2002) [Per Curiam; En Banc].

(https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt27) Rollo, pp. 7, 14-17. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt28) Id. at 5, 28.

(https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt29) Id. at 24-27. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt30) Id.

at 13. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt31) Id. at 25.

(https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt32) REV. PEN. CODE, art.

334 provides: Article 334. Concubinage. - Any husband who shall keep a mistress in the conjugal dwelling, or, shall have sexual intercourse, under scandalous circumstances, with a woman who is not his wife, or shall cohabit with her in any other place, shall be punished by prisi6n correccional in its minimum and medium periods.

The concubine shall suffer the penalty of destierro. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt33) Id. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt34) REV.

PEN. CODE, art. 333 provides: Article 333.

Who are Guilty of Adultery. - Adultery is committed by any married woman who shall have sexual intercourse with a man not her husband and by the man who has carnal knowledge of her, knowing her to be married, even if the marriage be subsequently declared void. Adultery shall be punished by prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods.

If the person guilty of adultery committed this offense while being abandoned without justification by the offended spouse, the penalty next lower in degree than that provided in the next preceding paragraph shall be imposed. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt35) See The United States v. Topino, 35 Phil. 901 (1916) [Per J. Trent, Second Division]. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt36) Id.

(https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt37) CONST., art. 11, sec. 14.

(https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt38) See Charter of the United Nations, 1 UNTS XV (1945), art. 1(3). The Charter was ratified by the Philippines on October 11, 1945.

See Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 217 A (III) (1948), Preamble, art. I, 7, and 16. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948 where the Philippines voted for its approval; See Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol.

1249, p. 13 (1979), art. 15.

The Convention was ratified by the Philippines on August 5, 1981. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt39) Rep. Act No. 9710 (2009) or The Magna Carta of Women. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt40) REV.

PEN. CODE, art. 344, paragraphs 1 and 2 provide: Art. 344.

Prosecution of the crimes of adultery, concubinage, seduction, abduction, rape and acts of lasciviousness. - The crimes of adultery and concubinage shall not be prosecuted except upon a complaint filed by the offended spouse. The offended party cannot institute criminal prosecution without including both the guilty parties, if they are both alive, nor, in any case, if he shall have consented or pardoned the offenders.

(https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt41) Rep. Act No. 7877 (1995).

(https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt42) Rep. Act No. 9262 (2004). (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt43) Rep. Act No. 7877, sec. 3 provides: Section 3.

Work, Education or Training-related Sexual Harassment Defined. - Work, education or training-related sexual harassment is committed by an employer, employee, manager, supervisor, agent of the employer, teacher, instructor, professor, coach, trainor, or any other person who, having authority, influence or moral ascendancy over another in a work or training or education environment, demands, requests or otherwise requires any sexual favor from the other, regardless of whether the demand, request or requirement for submission is accepted by the object of said act. (Emphasis supplied) (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt44) See Separate Opinion of J. Leonen in Tuvillo v. Laron, A.M. No. MTJ-10-1755, October 18, 2016, <http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/pdf/web/viewer.html?file=/jurisprudence/2016/october2016/MTJ-10- 1755 leonen.pdf> [Per Curiam, En Banc].

(https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt45) 764 Phil. 384 (2015) [Per J. Leonen, Second Division]. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt46) Id. at 399-400.

(https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt47) Per Curiam p. 17. (https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/jul2017/ammtj-16-1886so2017.html#rnt48) Perfecto v. Esidera, 764 Phil. 384, 407 (2015) [Per J. Leonen, Second Division].

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